Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting
On su, 2011-02-13 at 08:41 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 12/02/11 at 15:29 -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > >
> > > If we wanted to be serious about this, it would be nice for someone to
> > > set up a maximal build chroot: something with as many packages installed
> > > as possible. Then do test builds of all packages, and report problems.
> > > (Then upgrade the chroot, install as many new packages as possible, and
> > > rebuild everything. Repeat forever.)
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00869.html
>
> As Raphael pointed out, I did some work on this in the past. But I
> consider it mostly a waste of time, since the benefits are very little.
>
> Also, there are many areas where automated testing is interesting /
> useful, but where we don't do everything we could yet, like the use of
> test suites, or installation/upgrades testing in setups that are more
> complex than piuparts'. I would rather see someone work on this.
In case it was unclear: I fully agree!
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